I have an established account on Gitlab. I created a new empty repository. I copied exactly the instructions to push an existing folder to it.
cd existing_folder
git init --initial-branch=main
git remote add origin git@gitlab.com:Joymaker3/CatandMouse.git
git add .
git commit -m "Initial commit"
git push --set-upstream origin main
It all worked until the final push instruction, and then it failed, giving me:
% git push --set-upstream origin main
remote:
remote: ========================================================================
remote:
remote: ERROR: The project you were looking for could not be found or you don't have permission to view it.
I went and looked and saw that my SSH key was expired. So I created another one and pasted it into the appropriate place at Gitlab. Then I tried the push again. Exact same error.
Okay, maybe there’s something funky with the new repository. I tried cloning an existing repository which is well known to work, using its SSH URL. Same error!
Next step: check the SSH connectivity
% ssh -vT git@gitlab.com
OpenSSH_9.4p1, LibreSSL 3.3.6
debug1: Reading configuration data /Users/ken/.ssh/config
debug1: /Users/ken/.ssh/config line 9: Applying options for *
debug1: /Users/ken/.ssh/config line 14: Applying options for gitlab.com
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 21: include /etc/ssh/ssh_config.d/* matched no files
debug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 54: Applying options for *
debug1: Authenticator provider $SSH_SK_PROVIDER did not resolve; disabling
debug1: Connecting to gitlab.com port 22.
debug1: Connection established.
debug1: identity file /Users/ken/.ssh/id_ed25519 type 3
debug1: identity file /Users/ken/.ssh/id_ed25519-cert type -1
debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_9.4
debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version GitLab-SSHD
debug1: compat_banner: no match: GitLab-SSHD
debug1: Authenticating to gitlab.com:22 as 'git'
debug1: load_hostkeys: fopen /Users/ken/.ssh/known_hosts2: No such file or directory
debug1: load_hostkeys: fopen /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts: No such file or directory
debug1: load_hostkeys: fopen /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts2: No such file or directory
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT received
debug1: kex: algorithm: curve25519-sha256
debug1: kex: host key algorithm: ecdsa-sha2-nistp256
debug1: kex: server->client cipher: chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com MAC: <implicit> compression: none
debug1: kex: client->server cipher: chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com MAC: <implicit> compression: none
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_ECDH_REPLY
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_ECDH_REPLY received
debug1: Server host key: ecdsa-sha2-nistp256 SHA256:HbW3g8zUjNSksFbqTiUWPWg2Bq1x8xdGUrliXFzSnUw
debug1: load_hostkeys: fopen /Users/ken/.ssh/known_hosts2: No such file or directory
debug1: load_hostkeys: fopen /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts: No such file or directory
debug1: load_hostkeys: fopen /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts2: No such file or directory
debug1: Host 'gitlab.com' is known and matches the ECDSA host key.
debug1: Found key in /Users/ken/.ssh/known_hosts:28
debug1: rekey out after 134217728 blocks
debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS
debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS received
debug1: rekey in after 134217728 blocks
debug1: get_agent_identities: bound agent to hostkey
debug1: get_agent_identities: ssh_fetch_identitylist: agent contains no identities
debug1: Will attempt key: /Users/ken/.ssh/id_ed25519 ED25519 SHA256:OfDLrUCWHOxRC1OltBjAU4IJdo8xzTCkz4H8bHbswQA explicit
debug1: SSH2_MSG_EXT_INFO received
debug1: kex_input_ext_info: server-sig-algs=<ssh-ed25519,sk-ssh-ed25519@openssh.com,sk-ecdsa-sha2-nistp256@openssh.com,ecdsa-sha2-nistp256,ecdsa-sha2-nistp384,ecdsa-sha2-nistp521,rsa-sha2-256,rsa-sha2-512,ssh-rsa,ssh-dss>
debug1: kex_input_ext_info: ping@openssh.com (unrecognised)
debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey
debug1: Next authentication method: publickey
debug1: Offering public key: /Users/ken/.ssh/id_ed25519 ED25519 SHA256:OfDLrUCWHOxRC1OltBjAU4IJdo8xzTCkz4H8bHbswQA explicit
debug1: Server accepts key: /Users/ken/.ssh/id_ed25519 ED25519 SHA256:OfDLrUCWHOxRC1OltBjAU4IJdo8xzTCkz4H8bHbswQA explicit
Authenticated to gitlab.com ([172.65.251.78]:22) using "publickey".
debug1: channel 0: new session [client-session] (inactive timeout: 0)
debug1: Entering interactive session.
debug1: pledge: filesystem
debug1: Sending environment.
debug1: channel 0: setting env LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
debug1: client_input_channel_req: channel 0 rtype exit-status reply 0
Welcome to GitLab, @Joymaker2!
debug1: channel 0: free: client-session, nchannels 1
Transferred: sent 2156, received 1612 bytes, in 0.1 seconds
Bytes per second: sent 19642.5, received 14686.3
debug1: Exit status 0
Looks like it connected! So is something wrong with Gitlab’s suggested URL? I’ve been giving up and using https in the past, but I’d really like to get this right!